10 Billion Beats

An web-promoted synchronized drumming event
called "10 Billion Beats" was suggested as a
possible GCP event by Carlisle Bergquist in an email on Sept
16th. The website description explains how it works: "The
drumming will occur on Friday Sept. 17, 2010 at 7:00PM in
every time zone moving from east to west. (Please note --
the date will change to Saturday Sept 18, as we cross the
International Date Line.) Groups will gather in homes, in
town squares, city parks, and country fields. We will start
the beat on a hilltop in Kansas and catch it again the
following day. Each group will drum for at least one (1)
hour so that the next time zone will pick up the beat and
our "joyful noise" will roll with the hour around the world.
The right size group is you and everyone you can think to
invite. This is a grassroots event—you and I are the
grass."

Bergquist writes:

On Sept 17th. starting at 7:00 PM in the Central Time zone an
event called
10 Billion Beats will begin. 10 Billion Beats is a Global
Intention Event
that will use drumming to send a wave of positive intention
around the
world. Starting in Central Kansas, it will follow the sun
through the time
zones at 7:00 PM on Sept. 17th, 2010. (Sept. 18th as it
crosses the
dateline) The idea~Vthough admittedly grandiose~Vis not a
commercial event.
It's a grassroots idea to affect our collective
consciousness on a grand
scale. I thought it might be of interest to your project,
and to ours, to
observe if there was any observable response in your
measurements around the
globe as our event occurs.

For more information about 10 Billion Beats and what we
intend, please
review http://www.10billionbeats.com/intro.html

The GCP event was set for the 24 hours beginning at 7:00 pm
CDT, which is midnight UTC. Thus, the data for the event are
exactly the 24 hours of 18 Sept 2010. The result is
Chisquare 86602 on 86400 df for p = 0.313 and Z = 0.486.

It is important to keep in mind that we have only a tiny
statistical
effect, so that it is always hard to distinguish signal from
noise. This means that every "success" might be largely
driven by chance, and every "null" might include a real
signal overwhelmed by noise. In the long run, a real effect
can
be identified only by patiently accumulating replications of
similar analyses.